This cartoon is a great lead in to my recent discovery- that I would never make it as a burglar or petty theif. A few weeks ago one of my roommates, JB, and I were offered a leather couch and large screen TV for free, on the condition that we could get them out of this guy's condo without marking the walls. Great deal right?
Well, JB and I soon discovered we weren't cut out for this job. First off, we couldn't get the Tonneau cover off of our friend's pick-up truck. We proceed to make a ton of noise trying to unlock the door to the condo and open the garage door. If any of the guy's neighbors had any concern about his home, we probably would have been mistaken for inept robbers.
We go up two, winding and narrow staircases to find the room with both the TV and leather couch. After fifteen minutes of jostling and twisting(made difficult by cushions that are neither removable or firmly attached, so they get in the way), JB and I pull the couch through the door to discover we couldn't stand the couch up to get it down the stairs. Another fifteen minutes and we figure out how to stand it up-- only to realize it cant clear the first stair, much less clear the entire, turning staircase...twice. After twenty minutes of ideas (my favorite- dropping the couch out the 3rd story window), we throw in the towel and return the couch to where we found it, after removing a ceiling light to lower the couch again.
Demoralized, we try the TV. This TV simply weighed Way too much, as we couldnt even budge it. We settle for a coffee table, table lamp and a bizarre face statue, and make our way out to the truck- which was left unlocked.
It was on that night that we discovered we were the worst burglars to ever prowl the streets of that Condo neighborhood...
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